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> a spark is just as effective and about 5 orders of magnitude more likely to occur. Seems you know of data about commercial airline fuel tank spark explosions
by landemva 4y ago
> a spark is just as effective and about 5 orders of magnitude more likely to occur.
Seems you know of data about commercial airline fuel tank spark explosions. I didn't find much about this problem online. When else did this seemingly under-reported catastrophic commercial airline event happen?
- ceejayoz 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_143 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_143 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Airways_International_Flight_114 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Airways_International_Fli... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_214 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_214 All fuel tank explosions. Modern aircraft have equipment specifically to mitigate fuel vapor in the tanks because of these sorts of incidents. TWA 800 also caused improved maintenance requirements of wiring that might arc/spark, as inspections of other aircraft found widespread metal shavings, non-standard wiring, and eroded insulation in nearly every aircraft they took a look at.